Whatever Weds. Comet Lemmon

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I went out with a friend to try to see if I could find and photograph C/2025 A6 Comet (Lemmon) on October 19th. I didn’t go too far from home just up into the Pinenut Mountains a little bit. l took my 50mm lens so I would be able to see a wide space of the sky and hopefully see it. I never saw it with my eyes or binoculars, but when I got home and uploaded my images I was happy to see my camera had seen it. It’s the tiny green dot upper center of the image.

It’s tiny at 50mm but, I cropped this in a bit for a better look.

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Comet Lemmon Nikon D850| Nikkor 50mm

The next night I went back to the same spot with my old 80-200mm lens but, I wasn’t able to see it at all. I believe it was too low and behind the hills opposite.

So last night a friend and I went north to a spot I know that had more open sky. It took us a while to find it but, we did. My old lens had a bit of trouble focusing on my newish bigger sensor D810 but, once I uploaded my images I found I had several decent shots of the comet with a hint of its tail too.

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Comet Lemmon| Nikon D810| Nikkor 80-200mmD| October 21, 2025

It’s always exciting to see a comet and this one is pretty cool. It was 55 million miles from Earth last night and it won’t be back again until the year 3175! Do you think my images will survive for my future family members to see my images made with probably antiquated photography methods and gear? Somewhere between 33 and 46 generations will pass before C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) comes our way again. It boggles my mind.

Did you see it?

more to come…

48 thoughts on “Whatever Weds. Comet Lemmon”

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  7. REALLY impressive, Deborah. I went out to look that night but the sky was clouded over where I live. So it was with great joy that I got to study your excellent photos. Love that one where even the tail is seen! Your night photography is a complete joy, thank you.

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    1. Thank you so much, Jet! I’m so glad I went out while the sky was clear those 3 nights. It’s not clear now as we’re expecting and atmospheric river this week-end and the clouds rolled in early.
      I’m glad you enjoyed my images. Have a lovely week-end!

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  8. I didn’t see this one; the last comet I got a good look at was Lulin. A fellow I know in the hill country got really good photos with his equipment. He didn’t post information about his lenses or such, but he sure was aided by the really, really dark skies in the hill country. I’m so glad you were rewarded with photos that included the tail! Your experience reminded me of looking for the northern lights; even when I couldn’t see them with my eyes, I found their color in the photos I took.

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      1. My current blogs on our Cape York trip show we have, and hopefully in a couple of weeks we will be on the other side of the country with different birds again. Enjoy your week my friend.

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      1. Thanks for letting me know Deborah, I fear there may be others as I have missed seeing some of my regulars. I don’t know why this has occurred, probably another hitch with WordPress. 😦

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    1. Fantastic! I’ll look forward to seeing your time-lapse. Our weather changed overnight. I woke up to dark gray, cloudy skies and it hasn’t improved at. all. No going out for me tonight. Good luck to you tonight though! Get great images of it!

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          1. Good morning Deborah, thanks for asking 🙂 the weather has been very mixed lately and mostly cloudy but, I did set up a camera the other night …….. pointing at the same area of the sky for a couple of hours …….. first mistake! The Comet wasn’t in that area but had moved West so, after all that ramble, no, I haven’t seen or photographed it since, not for lack of trying though. Next time? Check the Sky Map first 😦

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            1. I didn’t the same the second night. I forgot the Big Dipper would move. So the comet was behind the hills and I couldn’t see it.
              I wish you a clear sky and best of luck your next attempt!

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    1. I couldn’t see it with my binoculars at all. It’s times like these I wish I had a telescope, special camera and all the things to get really close up looks at Comets and deep space stuff, but man it’s heavy gear and super costly so I don’t have it.

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  16. I’m not sure this comet was visible from the Netherlands, Deborah. I any case I didn’t see it myself, but, well, I wasn’t looking for it either. (If I had done that I would have needed to go quite a distance to where there wouldn’t be (as much) light polution!) And yes, it indeed is mind boggling to imagine the amount of generations it needs to see the lemmon pass again. And yes again, would photographs then still excist? You know what? Let’s get very old and find out ourselves! 🙂

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